Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

Man will put foward a goal to raise himself to a new level to create a higher sicio-biological type.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I never want to restrict myself and say I'm at my ultimate peak, I'm always looking to take myself to a higher level.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.